Italian naval vessel Calitea All 121 Italian crew members onboard were suddenly deemed enemies of Japan and taken to a prisoner of war camp near Kobe. The POW Research Network Japan has been ...

Horn is a research fellow at the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State. In her work, she investigates individuals’ experiences on the home front and the battlefront, looking ...

Secondly, Italian prisoners of war were held in their thousands in Scotland during WWII. Many of these were 'trustees' and worked in agriculture and industry ... and stayed. Peter Brooke ...

WWII Prisoner of War Arthur Leggett fought against the Italian army in Libya and was captured by German paratroopers in the ...

The 'Travelers Church' was built by Italian prisoners of war in 1942 on the Maai Mahiu escarpment. [George Njunge, Standard] For any incarcerated person, a dash to freedom, however brief ...

In May 1943, 267,000 German and Italian soldiers were captured by Allied forces in the North African Campaign. Three months later, 150,000 Axis prisoners of war were shipped to the United States.

5,435 Japanese—wereimprisoned in the U.S. during World War II. Last week the WarDepartment reported that every man jack of them had now been sent home,except for 24 German and Italian escapees ...

Giorgio Serafini During the final days of World War II, an Italian prisoner of war in Texas is left in the hands of the camp's commander, the only soldier remaining to guard the only prisoner ...